Software Licensing API – Example using Ruby

This document is a subset of the
Software Licensing API document, which lists all features available via the API. The following is an example of code that showcases how to implement these features with Ruby.

Request

require 'net/http'

uri = URI('https://domain.com/')
req = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri)

edd_action = 'check_license' # Valid actions are activate_license, deactivate_license, get_version, check_license
license    = ''
item_id  = '' # The ID of the product on your store
url        = 'example.org' # If you have disabled URL chaecking in the settings, you do not need this

req.set_form_data('edd_action' => edd_action, 'license' => license, 'item_id' => item_id, 'url' => url)

res = Net::HTTP.start(uri.hostname, uri.port) do |http|
  http.request(req)
end

case res
when Net::HTTPSuccess, Net::HTTPRedirection
  # check res.code for a 200 response, and then the response from the Software Licenseing API
  # will be located in res.body as a string of JSON
  puts res.body
else
  res.value
end

Response

A response to the above query would be a JSON formatted string that would look something like this:

{
	"license": "valid",
	"item_name": "EDD Product name",
	"expires": "2014-10-23 00:00:00",
	"payment_id": 54224,
	"customer_name": "John Doe",
	"customer_email": "[email protected]"
}